Timebeat Platform

Download the agent and install it with your OS's native package manager, then start the service.

Licence file, peer-ID persistence, monitor-only mode, step limits and slew boundaries.

Add PTP sources, set profiles, tune intervals, set priorities, name and group sources, cap rates and enable advanced modes.

Boundary clock mode, unicast subscriber caps, master tables and PTP over Layer 2 Ethernet.

Add NTP servers as clock sources and serve NTP from Timebeat itself.

Wire up 1-pulse-per-second sources, set edge mode, cable delays, link to NMEA / Timecard, and flag atomic oscillators.

Use the oscillator protocol to ride through GNSS jamming and upstream outages with hardware OCXO / Rubidium holdover.

Pull time from a serial GNSS receiver or from a hypervisor / NIC PHC clock, including RMC offset compensation.

Pick GNSS signals, set the dynamic model, tighten input filters, and enable quantisation correction.

Survey-in mode, fixed-position deployment, and drift-alert thresholds for spoof detection.

Add an Open TimeCard and enable OCXO aging compensation.

Enable high-precision SFP timing, configure L2 split mode, and create VLAN trunks.

Discipline the oscillator from a remote group, set the watchdog, apply input offsets, drive DCO from a remote URL, and configure tau_steps warm-up.

Configuring Open TimeCard Mini variants (Essentials, Lite, PT), OCP Timecard and the Open Time Appliance variants.

Turn on Timebeat's resilient self-healing PTP topology and configure mDNS discovery.

DHT-based discovery, persistent identity, seat capacity, reservations, capabilities, intervals and the hop-cost model.

Multi-tenant Virtual Grandmaster Clock — enable, add clients with routes, define reusable templates.

Authenticate Galileo navigation messages through a trusted NTRIP proxy.

Pick a steering algorithm, configure the outlier filter (including per-peer exemptions), enable algorithm logging and offset-arrival-driven servo, and override the clock quality.

Global sockets, auto-discover, multicast TTL, DSCP markings, randomised DELAY_REQ, TX synchronisation and PTP standard revision.

Configure backoff when another tool steers the clock, and tune the RTC sync interval.

Hardware timestamping, PHC offset strategies, smoothing, outlier filters, samples, one-step PTP, TAI offsets and startup PPS output.

Configure Elasticsearch as the output, set authentication (API key or basic auth), use Cloud PKI mTLS, and enable Index Lifecycle Management.

Configure file output for air-gapped or offline-first deployments — path, rotation, codec, permissions.

Set the log level, configure file rotation, send alerts to remote syslog, enable stdout logging, size the disconnect buffer and tune log pruning.

Enable the SSH-based CLI, configure key-based access, harden the default password, and expose the HTTP status endpoint.

Set the shipper name, attach custom fields, manage seccomp, load Kibana dashboards, enable X-Pack monitoring.

Windows-specific configuration — primarily the Timer Resolution control under `windows_specific`.